McKay Coppins
Staff Writer, The Atlantic. Author of NYT bestseller ROMNEY: A RECKONING. MSNBC contributor
- Reposted by McKay CoppinsThe winners of the 2025 Zenger Prize have been announced, including Atlantic staff writers @caitlindickerson.bsky.social and @mckaycoppins.bsky.social: Caitlin for “Seventy Miles in Hell” and McKay for “The Most Revealing Moment of a Trump Rally.” More info here: www.zengerhouse.com/2025-winners
- Mitt Romney on Ukraine: “We must not let personal squabbles weaken our resolve to stand with the freedom fighters and to oppose the authoritarian aggressors.”
- Reposted by McKay CoppinsWe're diving into the real-life 'Succession' drama. Atlantic staff writer McKay Coppins describes the rivalry among the children of 93 year-old media titan Rupert Murdoch over who will control his business empire when he dies. tinyurl.com/2s335jj4
- “The one thing that anyone who ever dips a toe into the practice of profile-writing learns is that what you intend as a bear hug can be taken as a betrayal, and what you fear is a betrayal can be taken as a bear hug." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
- "President Donald Trump’s firing of the country’s most senior military officer on Friday night rattled the foundations of the armed forces." Read @shaneharris.bsky.social and @jonathanlemire1.bsky.social on Trump's military purge: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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- “The contractor said that she had placed her government laptop in her closet at home, underneath a pile of clothes, in case DOGE was using it to listen to her private conversations.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
- Seven BYU law professors co-write op-ed calling out Trump’s disregard for Constitutional separation of powers and Napoleonic assertion that he is above the law: www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
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- “The US…cannot easily deport people to countries like Afghanistan, Iran and China, but by applying intense pressure it has managed to convince Panama to take some of them. After being sent to Panama, the deported migrants are no longer subject to US law.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
- Kat’s work on this story was invaluable. So grateful for her tireless research, sharp eye, and discretion. She’s got big things in her future!
- The Atlantic's April cover story is a real feat. It was an honor to work with @mckaycoppins.bsky.social on it over the past year: "The fight over the trust was the culmination of a decades-long story—one that James decided he was finally ready to tell." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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- I've spent the past year talking to James Murdoch about his father's "twisted" behavior, the mind games at the family-counseling retreat, how Fox News really works, and the war over his family's media empire. My cover story for The Atlantic's April edition: theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
- I read this book a month ago, and haven't stopped thinking about it since. If you're in Washington this Friday, join us for what promises to be a fascinating conversation!
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- I’ve been reading @chrislhayes.bsky.social’s book and it’s really quite good. Deeply insightful on one of the most important issues of the 21st century.
- I'm thinking today about this Republican senator who wanted to convict Trump after January 6 but was too afraid for his personal safety and his family's. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
- “The big joke on democracy,” Joseph Goebbels observed, “is that it gives its mortal enemies the means to its own destruction.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
- George Romney was a liberal Republican who marched for civil rights as governor of Michigan, took a defiant (and unpopular) stand against the ascendant radical right in his own party, and gave a speech at the 1964 RNC refusing to support Barry Goldwater. Mitt has idolized him since he was a kid.
- Really enjoying all the “you lost, get over it” posts from people whose preferred candidate tried to overthrow the government last time he lost an election.
- “Trump’s popular-vote margin has shrunk to about 1.5 percent—one of the tightest in the past half century—and because some votes went to third-party and independent candidates, he’ll fall just short of winning a majority of the vote nationwide." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
- Can’t wait to order up a baby that only needs 4 hours of sleep.
- Insane to me that we as a society looked around and basically said, “You know what younger men need? Another massively self-destructive vice that they can easily access from the phone in their pocket.” www.nytimes.com/athletic/577...
- As Mitt Romney delivers his farewell Senate speech today, I’m thinking about the final quote in my biography.
- Prediction: "Obedience in advance" will be to 2025 what "normalization" or "false equivalence" were to 2017—a once useful concept rendered meaningless by partisans who apply it to every argument they don't like.
- Smart piece on how, if Trump actually wanted to reduce consumption of seed oils, processed foods, and frozen school-lunch pizzas, he'd have put RFK Jr. in the Dept. of Agriculture, not HHS. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
- "Speculation is not the function of journalism. It is what an anxious brain does, worrying about all the ways things could go wrong, sending the worrier into a panicked and angry state." Make time for this essay, especially if you work in news media www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
- It's increasingly clear that Trump's religious conservative supporters were not making a one-time exception for his character—they appear to be fine with this behavior at every level of government (provided the officials in question say the right things and hate the right people).
- If only someone had asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
- Gottlieb: "I think if RFK follows through on his intentions, and I believe he will, and I believe he can, it will cost lives in this country.” "You're going to see measles, mumps and rubella vaccination rates go down."
- My family is serious about pie
- I named the family Thanksgiving text thread “Stuffing Squad” and nobody commented on it lol
- Took my 9yo son on a last-minute grocery run, and got a call from my wife asking if we could get some more herbs. We’d already left the store so she said not to worry about it. “Let’s goooo!! We don’t have to eat herbs or whatever!!” my son said after we hung up.
- I’ve been talking to @chrislhayes.bsky.social on air for a decade, always for 5-10 minutes at a time, so I really enjoyed having a longer conversation. On this confused ideological moment for conservatism and the inevitable Trump Administration infighting to come: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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- As a lover of holiday tradition, I’m generally skeptical of proposals like this, but I’m basically convinced by this argument: Move Thanksgiving to the Thursday before Columbus Day/Indigenous People’s Day! www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
